wi

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɪ/

Pronoun

wi (personal pronoun)

1. (Geordie) us

   Are yee commin with wi or not?

Preposition

wi

1. (Yorkshire) with

   Are tha doin' owt wi this?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiiʔ/

Etymology

From Proto-Kalamian *waʔi, *waʔikʔ.

Noun

wi

1. water

External sources

• Ronald S. Himes, The Kalamian microgroup of Philippine languages, in the Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, 17-20 January 2006, Palawan, Philippines, (2006, Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL International), page 7
• Mga bitalang pangaldaw-kaldaw ,An Agutaynen-Filipino-English Phrasebook (2006, SIL Philippines)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wi]

Noun

wi

1. man

References

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Noun

wi

1. (Gressoney, Carcoforo, Rimella, Campello Monti) wine

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words]. Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

Verb

wi

1. bite

References

• Claire Moyse-Faurie, Constructions expressing middle, reflexive and reciprocal situations in some Oceanic languages, in Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations

Noun

wi

1. fire

References

• 1993, among the La Trobe working papers in linguistics, volumes 6-8, page 8:

  The Wimmera language and Tjapwurrung can be distinguished by the following criterial words:

  [English] Wimmera Tjapwurrung

  […]

  fire wanyap wi

Romanization

wi

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of wj.

Noun

wị

1. (Suri) water

References

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

Etymology

From English we.

Pronoun

wi

1. we, us

Romanization

wi

1. Rōmaji transcription of ゐ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ヰ
3. Rōmaji transcription of うぃ
4. Rōmaji transcription of ウィ

Noun

wi (plural ghɨki)

1. woman, female
2. wife

References

• Randy Jones, Provisional Kom - English lexicon (2001, Yaoundé, Cameroon)

Noun

wi

1. water

References

• I. Bril, Dictionnaire Nelemwa-Nixumwak (2000)

Etymology

From Old Dutch wī, from Proto-Germanic *wīz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiː/

Pronoun

wi

1. we

Further reading

• “wi”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “wi (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Alternative forms

• wy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiː/
• (possibly, can't be discerned from written language) Stem vowel: ê⁴
  • IPA^(key): /wiə/, /wiɛ/

Etymology 1

From Old Saxon wī, from Proto-Germanic *wiz.

Pronoun

wî

1. (personal, first person singular nominative) we

Etymology 2

From Old Saxon hwē or a dialectal variation thereof, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz.

Pronoun

wî

1. (interrogative) Alternative form of wê.

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

Pronoun

wī

1. we

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

Pronoun

wī

1. we

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

Pronoun

wī

1. we

Preposition

wi

1. with

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Compare Tocharian A wu.

Numeral

wi m, f

1. (cardinal) two

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

wi

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Etymology

From Old Norse víðir, from Proto-Germanic *wīþijō.

Noun

wi f (definite singular wia, definite plural wien)

1. willow; Salix